Example sentences of "[adj] have be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to eat a salmon at its best , try to find one that has been netted at the river mouth or offshore early in the spring , that has been out of the water for no more than twelve hours and still has sea lice on it . |
| 2 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 3 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 4 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 5 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 6 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 7 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 8 | This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 10 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 11 | The 28 year old has been there since for 13 months . |
| 12 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 13 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 14 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 15 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 16 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 17 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 18 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 19 | Deltic ‘ Tulyar ’ and the Class 45 have been away from the Centre attending Laira Open Day , whilst Class 44 ‘ Great Gable ’ and Class 24 ‘ Experiment ’ attended the Cambridge Open Day . |
| 20 | In Scotland , 85,300 have been out of work for more than one year — an increase of 11,500 or 15.6 per cent in the last year . |
| 21 | The Turbo Ninety has been out since October 1986 and is available on the secondhand market , so I would go for one of those If you do buy a Turbo Landy then check its service history as neglected oil changes in early life will show up later on |
| 22 | What else was he supposed to have been up to ? |
| 23 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 24 | These have been here for months |
| 25 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |
| 26 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 27 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 28 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 29 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 30 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |